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Jaiku Closed for the Weekend Pending Upgrade

Source: Mashable!

Aug 24, 2008

Summary

If Twitter were down for one, two, or even three consecutive days, would you crack? For the heaviest, most avid of users, I think yes. But when the microblogging service Jaiku, acquired some 9-10 months ago by Google, told its users to take a weekend breather the past couple of days, few in the blog world raised the issue. Zach Epstein at the Boy Genius Report jumped on it, made a quick joke. But other than he, there seems to be little in the way of OMGs, WTFs, and various other three- and four-letter caps-sized exclamations.

However, having looked at responses by Jaiku Invites and ZDNet’s Googling Google blogger Garett Rogers, it appears that the service isn’t quite “down for the count,” so to speak. Instead, there’s morsel-sized evidence Jaiku is taking this short hiatus to enact a real shift in performance to give Jaiku that extra umph on the Google App Engine people have anticipated for a number of weeks now.

Indeed, the company did mention earlier this month that it was moving its wares over to the App Engine, and it delivered a few words on the Jaikido Bl

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Comments (1)

Nickwilsdon,

Sep 01, 2008

Turns out, as suggested, that this was part of their long anticipated move to Google's App Engine. I guess this marks the day Jaiku just became a serious competitor to Twitter.

http://www.socialmedian.com/story/909196/jaiku-moves-to-google-servers-open-to-all